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Etymology
Origin of voter
Explanation
If you cast your ballot during an election, you're a voter. In a presidential primary, voters from each major party choose a candidate to run in the general election. A voter, simply put, is either someone who's eligible to vote in an election or someone who actually does vote. When a candidate addresses voters, they're speaking to a group of people, trying to convince that group to vote for them. When voters pass an ordinance or approve a school budget, that means that the majority of those who voted made those choices. The Latin root of both voter and vote is vovere, "to promise."
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In recent days, the Indian capital has seen street protests over a large-scale voter roll revision exercise overseen by chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Voting is already under way in California, where every active registered voter receives a mail-in ballot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Bill Essayli, the lead federal prosecutor in Los Angeles whose office has previously sent Logan’s office a series of grand jury subpoenas for individual voter records as part of a criminal investigation into illegal voting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
The Congress and CJP have both organised protests over the voter roll revision.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
A year earlier, she had organized her fellow black employees at a white-owned nursing home to join a voter registration march.
From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman
And the Rogers campaign is paying more attention to Black voters in Detroit than Republicans typically do.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026
A spokesperson for Logan’s office said Friday that it was reviewing the Justice Department’s spreadsheet — in part to determine how many of the voters are actually in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
That year, 37% of voters said they approved of Bush’s job performance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
A recent Public Policy Institute of California survey found voters split on the measure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Two ballot papers would only confuse a majority of voters, most of whom would be voting for the first time in their lives.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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